How do we communicate – part 2

Not many of you responded to the poll earlier in the month about where we asked “How will we communicate?“. That really wasn’t unexpected — after all, the branch is not supposed to put too many things on your todo list.

But to maintain our community, we will need a way to send you periodic e-mail communications. Your communications committee (Birgit Pauli-Haack and Nancy Shoemaker) have chosen a Google Group as the simplest way to implement an e-mail list. It will have some standard features:

With one e-mail address you can reach all the members in the branch

Messages will be tagged with the subject line [aauw thb] so you can recognize them easily

By default your reply will go to the sender – but if you “reply all” it will go to the entire list.

If you’re new to the Google suite of web-based applications (including iGoogle home page, Google docs, and more) you can find a quick intro that describes setting up an account for your e-mail address (you can use your current e-mail — no need to switch to gmail) at wiki.bbvx.org “Getting Started with Google Docs”. But you do NOT need to go through this to get the branch messages in e-mail.